walk 10,000 steps a day

For the past 8 weeks I’ve been wearing a pedometer. It’s a health insurance promotion, to get people moving. I’ve done this several times now for several different initiatives with various groups of people.

I kept my tally here, on 43 Things. Yesterday as I was loading my daily entries to the promotional site, I discovered that based on my weight, age, and stride, it’s calculated that I need to average 15,000 steps a day to lose weight. Whoa, that’s a lot and that’s not what I’m averaging, but I believe it (and I should have noticed that eight weeks ago).

The 10K are to maintain weight, and yep, I’ve done a remarkable job of maintaining my weight, which is not the weight I want to maintain—it’s post-cruise. I like to do other exercise, so I don’t imagine myself walking 15K steps. I would be using a conversion table for the other exercise I love to get on a regular basis.

So on to the next level of monitoring my activity with my pedometer. Hmmmm; time to figure out how much I can increase.

For Fri, Sep 12, 2008: 10,161

Also-
Sat, Sep 13: 6,788. Goof-off day.
Sun, Sep 14: 7,243. Another goof-off day.
Mon, Sep 15: 10,017. Yay!
Tue, Sep 16: 9,673. Not quite.
Wed, Sep 17: 8,161. Argh.
Thu, Sep 18: 7,809. Nope.
Fri, Sep 19: 15,971. Yep, that is way over 10K!
Sat, Sep 20: 16,531. Another biggie.
Sun, Sep 21: 11,033. Yay!
Mon, Sep 22: 11,954. Good.
Tue, Sep 23: 10,176. Good again.
Wed, Sep 24: 10,234. Steady as she goes.
Thu, Sep 25: 7,229. Took the night off from exercise.
Fri, Sep 26: 15,283. A big chunk is from the evening walk.
Sat, Sep 27: 12,618. Includes StairMaster.
Sun, Sep 28: 10,554. Includes StairMaster again.
Mon, Sep 29: 10,926. Danced in the living room.
Tue, Sep 30: 6,136. Took the night off from exercise.
Wed, Oct 1: 10,276. About 2K are while vacuuming the carpet.
Thu, Oct 2: 7,044. Worked late at the office.
Fri, Oct 3: 5,816. Crashed from the work week. Will make it up Sat.
Sat, Oct 4: 10,195. Good, but still have to make up for Fri.
Sun, Oct 5: 13,595. Great! Includes workout at the gym.
Mon, Oct 6: 13,320. Includes Precor Trainer at gym. Yay!
Tue, Oct 7: 12,511. Includes gym workout. Fantastic.
Wed, Oct 8: 6,221. Took the night off. Slept!
Thu, Oct 9: 12,574. Walked to the drugstore and back.
Fri, Oct 10: 15,482. Includes 35 min of cardio machines.
Sat, Oct 11: 7,073. Off from exercise.
Sun, Oct 12: 13,778. Walk in woods, cleaning, vacuuming.
Mon, Oct 13: 10,463. Dancing in living room.

For Tue, Sep 9, 2008 through Thu, Sep 11, 2008.

For Mon, Sep 8, 2008.

Took the night off from exercise. (But ate healthy!)

For Sun, Sep 7, 2008.

For Sat, Sep 6, 2008.

For Thurs & Fri (Sep 4 & 5, 2008).

The previous day, Wed, I took the evening off from a walk but tallied 6,177 for all my incidental steps.

For Tues, Sep 2, 2008.

Even more walking!

For Monday, Sep 1, 2008.

Lots of walking!

Total for Sunday, August 31, 2008.

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